Putin may not be genuine in wanting to denazify Ukraine but the Russian people definitely are. At the end of the day he is a politician and if he wants to keep his popularity he needs to deliver on the promise. Russians are very serious about not tolerating a militarized Nazi regime on their border that is killing Russians. There is a deep and genuine historical disgust with Nazism in Russia for obvious reasons.
Obviously he is not an “ally”, he is an anti-communist, he pretty much openly says it. He despises Lenin.
Yet he is doing something that is useful for our cause, which is defeating the US empire in a proxy war and ushering in multipolarity. But, unlike for him, for us that multipolarity is not the end goal, it’s just a stepping stone on the path to a new wave of revolutions and the renewed spread of socialism. That however requires the weakening of the “West” and the breaking of the imperialist stranglehold on the global south.
I don’t get that impression. The only ones who have illusions about Putin are the liberals who think he’s the second coming of Stalin. Everyone else i’ve seen seems to be aware of exactly what he is, both on the anti-imperialist left and on the pro-Russia conservative right.
Putin may not be genuine in wanting to denazify Ukraine but the Russian people definitely are. At the end of the day he is a politician and if he wants to keep his popularity he needs to deliver on the promise. Russians are very serious about not tolerating a militarized Nazi regime on their border that is killing Russians. There is a deep and genuine historical disgust with Nazism in Russia for obvious reasons.
Obviously he is not an “ally”, he is an anti-communist, he pretty much openly says it. He despises Lenin.
Yet he is doing something that is useful for our cause, which is defeating the US empire in a proxy war and ushering in multipolarity. But, unlike for him, for us that multipolarity is not the end goal, it’s just a stepping stone on the path to a new wave of revolutions and the renewed spread of socialism. That however requires the weakening of the “West” and the breaking of the imperialist stranglehold on the global south.
Yeah this is what I’m talking about. I do feel that many people on our side have ilusions with him when they shouldnt
I don’t get that impression. The only ones who have illusions about Putin are the liberals who think he’s the second coming of Stalin. Everyone else i’ve seen seems to be aware of exactly what he is, both on the anti-imperialist left and on the pro-Russia conservative right.